instibrain / specialists
Give every AI on the team the same method.
A specialist is how your team does a job, written once: how to review a contract, how to write release notes. Each person's AI runs it on the spaces that person reads.
legal
The method is shared. The facts stay in each space.
Legal holds the steps and the voice; what a client space knows for it stays in that space. It reads only the spaces of the person who runs it.
the specialistThe method, shared.
- legal.mdread first
- method/review.mdhow it reviews
- method/checklist.mdbefore it hands back
the factsIn each space it reads.
- acme/knowledge/legal/the company's templates
- client-x/knowledge/legal/what one client signed
one method, many people
Each person's copy answers from their own pages.
A rep in Finance gets the floor; a rep outside it does not. These are examples, invented for this page.
Yours
specialists/writeropen factsyou askDraft the announcement for the pricing change.
writer, reading your pagesDrafted in your cadence. Two past posts said the opposite; both flagged.
knowledge/writer/ in your Personal: every post you published.specialists/ledgersealed factsyou askWhat am I still paying for that I stopped using?
ledger, reading your pagesA second cloud drive, a design tool, the gym. €94 a month.
knowledge/ledger/ in your Sealed space. Your computers only.Your team's
specialists/oncallopen factsan engineer asksQueue depth is climbing on the worker again.
oncall, reading the team's pagesSame as 14 March: a stuck job. Drain, then restart the worker before the api.
knowledge/oncall/: every postmortem and the deploy runbook.specialists/dealdeskopen factsa rep asksCan I do 22% off for a three-year commit?
dealdesk, reading the rep's pagesThe floor is 15%. Three years lets two founders approve 25%.
knowledge/dealdesk/ in Finance. Reps outside Finance get no floors.specialists/accountsopen factsa manager asksAcme is asking for the SSO date again.
accounts, reading the client's pagesPromised for Q3 2025, moved to Q1 2026. Nothing has shipped.
knowledge/accounts/ in the Acme client space.in every brain
Three specialists come with every brain.
They are instibrain's own, and no space can edit them.
| Specialist | What it does |
|---|---|
| The curator | Files each page where it belongs and fixes dead links |
| The guard | Checks what someone would read before a share |
| The builder | Sets up a computer, then each tool with your yes |
claude code
Claude Code subagents, shared by a team.
Is a specialist a Claude Code subagent?
Yes. On each computer it is
~/.claude/agents/<name>.md, which
reads its hub first, then knowledge/<name>/ in each of your spaces.How is it different from a Claude Code skill?
A specialist syncs. Change its method once in the brain, and the subagent on
every teammate's computer runs the new one.
Who can change a specialist?
Its editors and managers. A reader's copy is read-only, and the brain's text
wins over a change made there.
How is a specialist shared?
Its manager shares it with people, groups, or agents, after a review of each page and
its description with the guard's findings.
How many pages can a specialist hold?
Fifty. The facts belong in the spaces, in
knowledge/<name>/,
so the method stays short.Can a folder I already have become one?
Yes:
instibrain specialist adopt turns a folder of a space into a
specialist. A sealed space's folder cannot, since a specialist's pages are open.Write how the team does a job once. Every AI runs it.
Change the method, and every teammate's AI runs the new one at its next read.